THE HITTITE by Ben Bova Sci-fi master Bova recounts the adventures of Lukka, a Hittite warrior whose search for his missing family leads him to the gates of Troy.ĭAUGHTERS OF ROME by Kate Quinn Two sisters maneuver the treacherous tides of history and passion in Rome’s turbulent Year of Four Emperors, 69 A.D. THE DOVEKEEPERS by Alice Hoffman The popular author ( The Story Sisters, Seventh Heaven) recounts the story of four women present at the Roman siege of Masada in A.D. THE SONG OF ACHILLES by Madeline Miller “At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and a startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist.”≺nn Patchett MASTER & GOD by Lindsey Davis From the bestselling author of the Falco series, a big novel set in the paranoid reign of Domitian. ROMA VICTRIX by Russell Whitfielde explores the dangerous, seductive world of a female gladiator in ancient a sequel to Gladiatrix. Corbulo’s adventures continue in The Imperial Banner. By the author of the Boudica novels.ĪGENT OF ROME: The Siege by Nick Brown Cassius Corbulo, a young intelligence agent, encouters the machinations of Queen Zenobia of Palmyra in A.D. Scott The latest in the author’s epic series. HANNIBAL: Enemy of Rome by Ben Kane begins a new series set during the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage. THE FORGOTTEN LEGION by Ben Kane begins the chronicles of the the Forgoten Legion, set in the time of Julius Caesar. Exciting and fast moving, it may be read on its own or as a companion to Benita Kane Jaro’s trilogy The Key, The Lock, and The Door in the Wall.SPARTACUS: The Gladiator by Ben Kane begins the chronicles the legendary gladiator. Historically accurate, deeply researched, and poetically written, Betray the Night is a sympathetic reading of the position of women, and a study of the terror of power.
It is not until she leaves behind the world of men to search among the people Rome has forgotten: the women, the slaves, the runaways and temple prostitutes, that she begins to understand what has happened to her life and her husband’s, and what the world around her really is. A woman alone, she is handicapped by the powerlessness of her position.
His young and beautiful wife Pinaria stays behind to try to salvage something of their lives and to work to bring him home. In the year 8 AD, at the age of fifty, the most famous poet in Rome, Publius Ovidius Naso, known to us as Ovid, is suddenly exiled by the Emperor Augustus for an unknown reason. The world has ever seen: a clash of wills and story of love. The poet of love, the wanton princess, the most powerful man
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